...Sitting in the small yet bustling counselor’s office in a warm yet seemingly unused wooden chair with a rough padding and stiff wooden frame, I wait for my name to be called into the conference room to meet with NWACC Upward Bound’s Director Jason Ervin and Academic Coordinator Austin Jones. Although trying to maintain a calm, cool, and collected persona about myself, my name gets called to come in and right when I sit down the nervousness that was perfectly hidden before begins to pour out just like oil does when a pipeline ruptures; however, sitting directly across the table from me is Austin wearing a tattered trapper hat, which he cleverly uses as an icebreaker to lessen the tension in the room. Jason Ervin, director of the entire Upward...
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...The moment that I realized I wanted to enhance my academic performance was when I was selected to attend the “Upward Bound” program at Mississippi State University. I and a few other students were accepted into this program because we were performing at higher academic level from the rest of our peers. In order to get accepted into the Upward Bound program, a student’s GPA had to be a minimum 3.0. When I learned that I was one of the student’s chosen to be a part of this program, I was very excited and scared. The fear that I felt existed because the program was being held at a university and I did not know what to expect. On the other hand, I was excited to be away from home and have the opportunity to be able to coexist among older students. After arriving at Mississippi State University, I eventually got settled in and became inspired by my new environment. I took a tour of the entire campus so that I could become familiar with the buildings and halls that would host my classes. I visited buildings such as the library, cafeteria, and sororities and fraternities. While touring the campus, I remember feeling more determined and inspired to work harder so that I can experience the college lifestyle. I wanted to connect with embracing more knowledge so that I can create a brighter future for myself and I knew that this environment would be the gateway to that. On my first day sitting in a college classroom, I had decided that I wanted to enhance my learning and become more knowledgable...
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...I reached out to a counselor of mine and requested information on tutoring or extracurricular clubs that would help direct me as a student on the college path. I applied to Upward Bound since I met the qualifications of being a first generation student, but also having the eagerness and readiness to learn. In the beginning I did have some doubt that I would be admitted because during that time I didn't have the best grades nor did I have the best help. I'll admit I associated with the wrong crowd, but I learned to distance myself from the negativity and strive for greatness; I learned the hard way since I realized I needed to buckle down when my GPA ended up being lower than what I wanted it to be. When I was admitted into Upward Bound it was one of the greatest accomplishments that could have happened to me because they are the main reason why I want to pursue my college...
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...I did a few extracurricular activities, but unfortunately I didn’t do very much of volunteering. As I entered my high school years, I knew that I would have to find resources to help me with my academics, especially since my family wasn’t able to because of their English language barriers and not getting past a high school education. I began my search for support found a program called Upward Bound that provides fundamental support via summer college classes, SAT tutoring, Saturday College, and tutoring. Throughout my time in high school, I have taken advantage of their support; I have asked for tutors, fee waivers, recommendation letters, opportunities for possible jobs, classes and numerous other questions. I was able to put the SAT skills to use when I had to take the SAT in November and I honestly felt that I improved....
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...Bound and free morphemes Free morphemes: o constitute words by themselves – boy, car, desire, gentle, man o can stand alone Bound morphemes: o can’t stand alone – always parts of words - occur attached to free morphemes cats: cat ( free morpheme -s ( bound morpheme undesirable: desire ( free morpheme -un, -able ( bound morphemes o affixes o prefixes – occur before other morphemes ▪ unhappy, discontinue, rewrite, bicycle, bipolar o suffixes – following other morphemes ▪ sleeping, excited, desirable o infixes – inserted into other morphemes ▪ Bontoc, a language in the Philipines – fikas ‘strong’ fumicas ‘to be strong’ kilad ‘red’ kumilad ‘to be red’ ▪ English full word obscenities into another word – in+fuggin+credible also+bloomin+lately o circumfixes – attached to another morpheme both initially and finally ▪ German Past participle of irregular verbs – ge+lieb+t Roots and Stems o morphologically complex words consist of a root + one or more morpheme(s) o root ▪ a lexical content morpheme that ...
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...The Linguistics Assessment of a Young Child’s Language Melissa Ozuna California State University, Los Angeles Questions: 1, 5, 7, 8, 12 The Linguistic Assessment of a Young Child’s Language Introduction “The child begins to perceive the world not only through his eyes but also through his speech.” Like Lev Vygotsky, Holmes speaks about one of the everyday behavior we use and that’s language. Communication is done by engaging our brains and bodies to make sounds and transfer one person’s thoughts to another. No matter how many languages there are, language can still be broken down into the same building blocks of communication. Specifically, linguistics is analyzed with one of the smallest building blocks like phonology, to lexicon, to syntax, to morphology, and communicative competence. Just how small these building blocks of linguistics come together at its own pace, is exactly how small it is to learn language. Language learning can be done at its own pace, but with the help of assessments there are common turning points, procedures, and phases one can follow to truly understand an individual’s language development over time. Method Participants Rita is a 3 year and two month old female. She is the second child of the family living under the roof with both parents. Father works at a Police station and mother’s occupation is at a office profession. From her beginning till her present days she has spoken 100% English. Procedure The interview was conducted in the living room/...
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...What Outdoor Education done for me….by Abdul Kahlid, 25 May 2010 As I ponder on the question that stares into me, I sit writing this piece of reflection with the knowledge that I benefitted from an institution which the late Dr Goh Keng Swee created – Outward Bound School of Singapore – in 1967, as a form of holy order that all young Singapore pre-National Servicemen had to undergo as a preparation before the actual military service. He was certainly ahead of his time and who would have thought the institution he created in 1967 is now one of the leading institutions that shape character and leadership for people of all walks of life and age. My early experiences and exposure of the outdoors was through Boy Scouts. I was conscripted into the boy scouts unit when I was in secondary 2, though there was no scout unit in my secondary school. This was to be made possible as I joined an Open unit, which was open to students of secondary school who had no scout unit in its premises. My very simple reason for wanting to join the Boy Scouts unit were to have a chance to experience the outdoors, get close to nature, be skilled in craftsmanship (I learnt that I would learn to tie knots, pitch tents, use a stove, operate kerosene lamps, learn some survival skills and many more), as well as forge friendship and brotherhood with others. I was curious about expeditions, mountain climbing trips and wondered what it would be like to trek through one. My years in Scouts opened my eyes...
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...that the writer wants to write her account of her search in way that will relate to his readers also it shows that the text is informal as oppose to being formal. The mode of this text is written. The field of the text is to describe to someone what kind of sausage they see as their “perfect sausage” and they go into great detail about every little thing that needs to be considered when in search of the perfect sausage. There are a few interesting uses of morphology in this text. An example would be “coarsely”, this word is a free morpheme “coarse” attached to a bound morpheme “ly” to create the word “coarsely”. There are more than a few free morphemes within the text and no bound morphemes because a bound morpheme has to be attached to a free morpheme in order to make sense. I’m not sure whether this would be a correct morpheme or even if it is a correct use of a lexis but the word “stickyish” would be a free and bound morpheme attached; “sticky” and “ish”. The word stickyish means not really sticky but sticky enough and it is used in this field to describe a sausage. This text isn’t written in past tense but I wouldn’t say it was written in present tense either because he is describing what he would like his perfect sausage to be like. There are a few words that are from a semantic field. These words are “savoury”, “butcher’s sausage”, “skinny chipolatas” and “banger”. With all of these words mixed in with other describing words the text is written to purposely make someone...
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...Topology-Transparent Duty Cycling for Wireless Sensor Networks Computer Science& Engineering Arizona State University syrotiuk@asu.edu Abstract Our goal is to save energy in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) by periodic duty-cycling of sensor nodes. We schedule sensor nodes between active (transmit or receive) and sleep modes while bounding packet latency in the presence of collisions. In order to support a dynamic WSN topology, we focus on topology-transparent approaches to scheduling; these are independent of detailed topology information. Much work has been done on topology-transparent scheduling in which all nodes are active. In this work, we examine the connection between topology-transparent dutycycling and such non-sleeping schedules. This suggests a way to construct topology-transparent duty-cycling schedules. We analyse the performance of topology-transparent schedules with a focus on throughput in the worst case. A construction of topology-transparent duty-cycling schedules based on a topology-transparent non-sleeping schedule is proposed. The constructed schedule achieves the maximum average throughput in the worst case if the given nonsleeping schedule satisfies certain properties. 1 Introduction Wireless sensor networking has been a growing research area for the last years. It has a wide range of potential applications, such as environment monitoring, smart spaces, medical systems and robotic exploration. In sensor networks, sensor nodes are normally...
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...Culture-bound syndrome The term culture-bound syndrome was included in the fourth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) which also includes a list of the most common culture-bound conditions (DSM-IV: Appendix I). Included in DSM-IV-TR (4th.ed) the term cultural-bound syndrome denotes recurrent, locality-specific patterns of abnormal behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV-TR diagnostic category. Many of these patterns are naturally considered to be illnesses, or at least afflictions, and most have local names. Although presentations conforming to the major DSM-IV-TR categories can be found throughout the world, the particular symptoms, course, and social response are very often influenced by local cultural factors. In contrast, cultural-bound syndromes are generally limited to specific societies or culture areas and are localized, folk, diagnostic categories that frame coherent meanings for certain repetitive, patterned, and troubling sets of experiences and observations. In medicine, a culture-specific syndrome or culture-bound syndrome is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture. There are no objective biochemical or structural alterations of body organs or functions, and the disease is not recognized in other cultures. While a substantial portion of mental...
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...infrastructure, have already been showed effective ways to increase it. In this work, we jointly consider the impact of the above three factors on network capacity. We assume that m static base stations and n mobile users are placed in an ad hoc network. A general mobility model is adopted, such that each user moves within a bounded distance from its home-point with an arbitrary pattern. In addition, each mobile node serves as a source of multicast transmission, which results in a total number of n multicast transmissions. We focus on the situations in which base stations actually benefit the capacity improvement, and find that multicast capacity in a mobile hybrid network falls into several regimes. For each regime, reachable upper and lower bounds are derived. Our work contains theoretical analysis of multicast capacity in hybrid networks and provides guidelines for the design of real hybrid system combing cellular and ad hoc networks. 1 Index Terms—Wireless ad hoc network; multicast capacity; mobility; infrastructure; hybrid network; scaling law; that each moving node is located within a circle of radius 1/f (n) [3]. By mapping the network to a generalized random geometric graph, they have proven that Θ(1/f (n)) per-node capacity is achievable. Infrastructure in an ad hoc network provides a more straightforward increase to the capacity. In [4], Liu et al. claim that infrastructure...
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...Name Boyu xia Collins on Chaos INTRODUCTION In this article, it use an example from Climbers, which is “20 miles goals.” A team who has clearly goals and plan, it could be success than others. Statement one You need both parts of a 20-Mile March: a lower bound and an upper bound, a hurdle that you jump over and a ceiling that you will not rise above, the ambition to achieve and the self-control to hold back. Comment I like this sentence because I strongly agree with its idea. First, we need set a goal that should be done after we efforts. This is important, people always need goals to motivate us to get things done. Setting goals is a good habit for us. For the second one, I think it brings new idea to me. Its said, we need set a upper bound that we will not rise above. Its means if we required we do fitness two hours a day, at the begging, we may have more passion to do this, but we could not do more than two hours in one day, because it will drain your stamina, you may not have stamina for tomorrow’s goal. Same idea in other’s area, we setting a good goals, and strict the plan carefully. We should always put our views on a long term. Statement two (bold face) 20-Mile Marching reduces the likelihood of catastrophe when you're hit by turbulent disruption. In a setting characterized by unpredictability, full of immense threat and opportunity...
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...seat was to be in the Upward Bound Program. I believe I took that as an advantage to do whatever I want. As soon as my senior year of high school started I wanted to do everything I can to please myself. I applied to every college I wanted to attend; I had my whole schedule out about my life after high school. One rejection letter messed up my entire plan, and that is what caused me to lose interest in any activities. I was not connecting and communicating positively with Upward Bound Staff during this Fall Semester because I lost all hope after all my plans failed. I have never fully communicated with the Upward Bound Staff members as much as I would have liked, but I do believe that it may have made my life much easier if I did. It was planted in my head that if I never talked to them about anything before, why I would start now. At the end of the probation meeting, I had a serious talk with Mrs. Peterson and I felt a million times better. I just wish I would have had that relationship with everyone when I was a freshman. My responsibilities as an Upward Bound Program Student are to live up to my goals, participate in Upward Bound activities, and commit myself to Upward Bound. I want to stay in Upward Bound Program because this is my last and final year to show who I really am and get a feel for my life and path after high school and Upward Bound is over. I really feel that my status in Upward Bound reflects how much I care. I started the Upward Bound Program with an “I don’t...
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...little bit. I want to go to college for four years, graduate, and then go to the Air force to fulfill my dreams of becoming a pilot. In those four years of college I have not found out what I want to major in yet. Nor, have I found out what school I want to go to. On my list my top two are the University of Alabama (Roll Tide), and Floride State. While in High School though, I want to make a high score on my ACT, so I could attend any school I want, and also a Scholarship would be nice. Also, since my dad is a Vet, I can go to school for free, thank God for him. I also have the chance of bridging at the University of West Alabama due to Upward Bound. Upward Bound is already getting me ready for College, so bridging would sure enough do the trick. I really want to bridge because that also a summer of Free College. It is also better than the Upward Bound Summer Program, because it allows the kids to have more freedom. I wish I could have more freedom, because I be so tired. So, my mission of becoming a pilot started back last year, when I found out that I had a thing for speed. Every since then, I have not changed my mind. I really hope that I pass my Mission, and reach my goal for being...
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...employ the scandalous Joe Clark as the school head. Clark reluctantly agrees to become its next head. And when Clark arrives, he shakes things up by recasting instructors as well as calling all of them ineffectual. And it is not long before a lot of individuals demand for his removal. However, but at the same time, Clark gains the admiration of some of the instructors and the learners when he gradually turns round the fortunes of the school. Information is exchanged for a variety of reasons and it flows both ways. Communication plays a crucial role in modeling and upholding acceptable superior-subordinate relations. There are numerous concepts at play in superior-subordinate communication. Key among them include feedback, upward influence, and trust. First, upward communication or influence refers to the process where information is transmitted from the lower (subordinates) levels of an organization to the upper (superiors) levels of an organization. Such kinds of communication include estimations, proposals, complaints, grievances, petitions, reports among others. This is very important because it plays the role of the feedback to a successful downward communication that may have been made...
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